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The year was 1998. It was clear that college football needed to fix the broken Bowl Alliance, which had produced a shared title in its final year of existence. After the '97 season, college football executives sat down and drew up a new plan to fix college football's national championship debate once and for all.

But what the execs came up with was a far from perfect system. The Bowl Championship Series had many a glaring weakness, namely that it was just the Bowl Alliance, plus the Big Ten, Pac Ten, and the Rose Bowl.

But what if those executives and commissioners debated a little longer, thought a little harder, and worked a little smarter? The result, had more time been taken to hash it out, could have been revolutionary.

And so the synopsis of my inaugural alternate history, which, in a series of news articles, covers from its inception in 1998 to the present times a playoff system that never was.
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